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A TORY MINISTER rang a Sky News reporter live on air – and promptly ended the call – as the programme reported on polling that predicts he and other ministers could lose their seats in the UK general election.
The UK’s Conservative Party is expected to see significant losses in the election on 4 July to the Labour Party, which some polling suggests may be on track for its biggest election success ever.
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps is among the prominent Tory figures who could lose a seat, as well as Justice Secretary Alex Chalk, Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and former minister Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Sky News was reporting on the election yesterday when one of the journalists on air, Sam Coates, received a phone call from Shapps.
Coates answered the call and informed Shapps he was live on Sky News and asked him if he had a comment about the forecast that he could lose his seat.
Shapps gave no response and swiftly ended the call.
Different polls give slightly different forecasts of exact seat numbers but there is a general consensus that Labour is on track for a sweeping victory.
YouGov analysis published yesterday said Labour could potentially win around 400 seats and cut the Tories down to 140.
The poll of 58,000 people, which was carried out for Sky News, suggests Labour could get a majority of 194, which would be the largest margin for any party in the UK in the last century, while Liberal Democrats would win 48 seats, the SNP on 17 and the Green Party moving only marginally from one to two seats.
Our first MRP of the 2024 general election shows Labour winning a majority of 194, larger than even Tony Blair's landslides
— YouGov (@YouGov) June 3, 2024
Labour: 422 (+220 from GE2019)
Conservative: 140 (-225)
Lib Dem: 48 (+37)
SNP: 17 (-31)
Green: 2 (+1)
PC: 2 (-2)
Reform UK: 0 (=)https://t.co/P20M6KsS4p pic.twitter.com/bRkmaVeAwh
A separate MRP analysis published by More in Common and the News Agents podcast earlier yesterday suggested Labour was on course for its biggest majority in 23 years, using analysis based on voting intention data collected between 9 April and 29 May from 15,089 adults.
Additional reporting by Press Association
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Jacob Rees-Mogg predicted to lose his seat. OH PLEASE LET THAT HAPPEN!!!!
@Tricia G28: I suppose it would allow him to spend more time with his money.
@Tricia G28: He’s been described as a
“haunted Victorian pencil.”
@honey badger: Jaysus that’s some name
@honey badger:
The biggest supporters of Victorian political and academic society are found among the Journal commenters despite the prejudice towards other societies. It is fine to remember this before the 80th anniversary of D-Day when courage was on display, unlike today.
The invasion and extermination imperatives of Victorian natural selection provided the Nazis with a justification for the death and misery of WWII.
“In 500 years how the Anglo-Saxon race will have spread & exterminated whole nations; & in consequence how much the Human race, viewed as a unit, will have risen in rank.” Charles Darwin
@Gerald Kelleher: You OK Gerald?
@Gerald Kelleher: creep
I get the opportunity to undo the Victorian prejudice conviction as often as possible, and so should everyone with a bit of courage. It honours the soldiers who fought against the invasion and extermination imperatives that the Nazis reheated from Victorian natural selection.
Non-entities do not influence this topic, whereas the academic community tried to hide natural selection behind social darwinism as though they could disguise the prejudice conviction behind a Victorian icon.
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, there is a fictional, if visual, reminder that people can overcome initial cowardice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW9Q1cm_Tnw&t=53s
Once again, the opportunity to remove a Victorian prejudice conviction in the face of hostility takes courage.
Reform are set to gain a whopping ZERO seats. Anti-immigrant heads on here predicting Reform will gain a landslide because apparently “immigrants are an issue”, but only to bigoted patriots. Guess cons leaned a little too right.
@9QRixo8H: Their VERY obvious attempts to use national populism issues to try and claw back votes would be funny if there weren’t real people being damaged by their rhetoric.
@9QRixo8H: You’re absolutely right – only to bigoted patriots, or people suffering the knock-on effects of insufficient housing, overcrowded schools, doctors, hospitals or generally being overtaxed to finance the present illegal immigration scam fostered by Sinn Fein/Greens/Labour/SDs and foreign People Before Peasants
@Thomas Sheridan: all those things existed before the immigration crisis, Thomas.
@Thomas Sheridan: you’re conflating issues. And heaping the blame on the immigrant. As if they’re not human enough for a doctor’s appointment. You always had to wait hours in A and E, because FFG is not solving it. Housing is an issue coz FFG isn’t solving it. And then you blame those who are not in power for FFG’s immigration response.
@Thomas Sheridan: Here in Thomas’ world housing and health is a new issue brought on by the thousands of immigrants that don’t look like him being allowed to enter the country due to governmental policies of our…opposition parties.
Maith an fear, Tomás. Do you mind if I call you Tomás? I’ve a funny feeling you hate being called that.
The Moggy one is a funny man alright.
@Ulysses 31: ah sure you are right there. Mogg and donnacha would be some team boy.
There are plenty Irish people who actually support the like of Mogg and Farange. Just let that sink in.
@Louis Jacob: Plenty is a bit extreme,a tiny minority might.
@Louis Jacob: I like nigel
@Ulysses 31: Sorry for your troubles.
@Louis Jacob: How do you know?
Farage is wasting his time putting himself forward
@Martin Finnerty:
Not sure about that.
With a bit of luck Reform will win no more than one or two seats but Clacton is one place they might.
The only constituency ever to return a UKIP MP in a general election, at one point the least diverse constituency in the UK.
Think the UK version of Florida, lots of beeches and retired people.
Nearest thing reform has to a safe seat.
@Martin Finnerty: Nigel is a professional mud stirrer and it’s made him a very wealthy man. Britain out of the EU, but i doubt he can manage to get britian off the planet to solve its migrant population. But some British actually believe what he says
@Martin Finnerty: Not in Clacton he ain’t, the place is a trove of little Englanders.
@P. V. Aglue: That’s their problem. Full of it he is.
@Martin Finnerty: He chose well with Clacton. A Tory majority if 21000, I think. He could hive off enough Tory votes to get first place.
@Martin Finnerty: Grifters gonna grift.
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